The Ramayana Melas

Dr Ram Manohar Lohia was an intensely intellectual politician. He was also multi-dimensional in his approach to politics. He gave three symbols to socialists as indicators of what it meant to be a holistic political activist. He chose the shovel for constructive work, since this was required to gain acceptance and credibility amongst the people and to demonstrate policies through concrete examples. Jail bars denoted the willingness to struggle and sacrifice one’s own freedom for the sake of another. And the ballot box symbolised the need to participate in party activities and electoral politics. Any one of these without the others made for an incomplete politician.

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